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Finger Picking Guitar – Assigning Fingers To Strings

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There’s a question that comes up for guitar players learning finger style techniques. Do we assign each finger to a specific string permanently or assign fingers to strings as the piece of music you are learning calls for? The answer is that you will find yourself using both ways of deciding which finger plays which string. To start the ball rolling you should probably follow the discipline of giving your thumb the sixth and fifth strings and the first, second and third fingers to the third, second and first strings respectively. This leaves the fourth string being shared by the thumb and the first finger.

Giving your fingers permanent assignment to certain strings gives you a starting point. You use this finger assignment on every song you learn and as you learn you will feel from how your fingers are handling playing the piece, whether you need to depart from your rigid finger assignment.

Another thing to consider is how the music sounds. Sometimes you are going to decide that you like the way a single note scale passage sounds when it is played with the thumb or that a melodic phrase on the bass strings sounds right when it is played with the first and second fingers.

You will understand the ideas involved in finger assignment if you watch this video:


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